These 60 Vintage Photographs Tell The Incredible Story Of New York City
In less than a century, NYC has transformed from a humble melting pot to a towering metropolis at the center of the world. These incredible photographs showcase how it came to be…
Men cut ice from Kissena Lake in Queens, ca. 1860-1900
Lady Liberty being assembled in Paris in 1885
Girls hold hands and walk along 42nd Street in the 1890s
Little Italy in 1900
Madison Square ca. 1900
Times Square, 1903
Children, adults, and a herd of sheep visit Central Park ca. 1900
Delancey Street, 1906
Workers dig along Delancey Street, 1908
Painters hang from the wires of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1914
A pyramid of German army helmets outside Grand Central Terminal during World War One
Grand Central ca. 1920
The Lannier Hotel, 1921
Sunbathers swarm on Coney Island, 1922
The New York Fire Department shows off its new steam powered fire engine
Opening Day at Yankee Stadium, 1923
Children play on 50th St., 1924
Workers lay bricks to pave 28th St., 1930
A Brooklyn Hooverville in Red Hook Park during the Great Depression
A crowded market underneath Park Avenue, 1932
The Cathedral of Saint John ca. 1935
Midtown Manhattan ca. 1935
Carnegie Hall ca. 1935
The S.S. Normandie on it’s way to dock ca. 1935
42nd St. with the Chrysler Building in the top right ca. 1935
A man looks over the Hudson from the George Washington bridge, 1936
A woman buys vegetables on Bleeker Street, 1937
The view from the Chanin Building, 1937
An elevated subway tracks, 8th St., Brooklyn, 1938
Downtown, 1944
The outfield at a Yankee’s game ca. 1935
Astoria Public Pool, 1940
Times Square, 1954
A skyjector shines an eye on the side of a building, 1960
Chinatown, 1960
Over 10,000 young couples gather in Central Park for an Easter Love-in, 1961
Police pursue gang members, 1961
Two young women in Central Park, 1961
A window cleaner at work on the RCA Building, 1961
A lifeguard in Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 1961
World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, Queens, 1964
Entrance to the Wall Street Stock Exchange, 1964
The 3,000 builders of the Chase Manhattan Bank as they near the end of construction, 1964
The World Trade Centers under construction, ca. 1966 – 1970
The New York subway, 1969
The Bowery, 1970s
Times Square, 1972
Judy Collins plays to a crowd at the Schaefer Bandstand in Central Park, 1973
Midtown congestion, 1973
Bronx, 1973
Harlem, 1973
Brooklyn, 1974
A family walks down 32nd Street, 1981
Subway at rush hour, 1982
Picnic in Central Park, 1984
Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, 1987
The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, 1989
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